Overland Park, Kan., March 20, 2013 –
Dennis Morrison, Ph.D., chief clinical officer for Netsmart, the leading
provider of clinical solutions for health and human services organizations
nationwide, will be a featured speaker at the second annual TEDxBloomington, an
independently organized TED event on March 22 in Bloomington, Ind.

A
non-profit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, TED started as
a four-day conference in California 26 years ago. The organization hosts two
annual conferences and has grown to include multiple global initiatives to
support the world-changing ideas presented there.

TEDxBloomington
features invited presenters who have taken Ideas Worth Spreading and
used them to improve their communities and the world. Dr.
Morrison will share his observations about three major challenges for mental
health and addictions treatment and how they can be overcome.

A
recognized innovator and thought leader with more than 40 years experience in
behavioral health, Dr. Morrison leads Netsmart’s initiatives for clinical
innovation, predictive analytics, and other areas critical for Netsmart clients
to provide high-quality care in a rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. He is
a frequent industry speaker on topics ranging from evidence-based practice and
recovery- and research-based care to coordinated care planning and care
integration.

About
Netsmart

Netsmart
helps health and human services organizations transform care through the
collaborative, coordinated management and exchange of clinical data across the
care spectrum and through effective practice management that improves revenue
cycle management. More than 18,000 client organizations, including 350,000 care
providers and more than 40 state systems, use Netsmart products to help improve
the quality of life for tens of millions of people each year. Netsmart clients
include mental health and substance use treatment agencies, psychiatric
hospitals, private and group mental health practices, public health
departments, social services and child and family health agencies, vital
records offices, and managed care organizations. Netsmart’s products are
full-featured information systems that operate on a variety of operating
systems, hardware platforms, and mobile devices, and offer unlimited
scalability.

Netsmart
provides the solutions and expertise that help its clients meet all the
criteria for Meaningful Use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

Building
upon Netsmart’s Complete ARRA-Certified EHRs, Netsmart clients can also
create a complete connected care environment encompassing e-prescribing and
order entry, sharing clinical information and lab results, and using Web
portals to provide secure and private consumer access to care information.

Netsmart is also pleased to
sponsor www.everydaymatters.com, an interactive, informational forum for
clinicians, practitioners and consumers to share stories, celebrate successes,
become enlightened and inspired, and debunk myths and stigma about mental
health and public health issues in an effort to highlight the positive clinical
and financial impacts provided by the behavioral and public health community.

For
information about Netsmart’s full range of solutions for health and human
services organizations, visit www.ntst.com
or call 1-800-472-5509. Also follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook and visit us on YouTube.